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  • A well-known mentalism "trick" from David Blaine was when he'd ask someone to "Name a two digit number from 1 to 50; make each digit an odd digit, but use different digits", and his guess would be 37. There are only eight values that work {13, 15, 17, 19, 31, 35, 37, 39}, and 37 was the most common number people would choose. Of course, he'd only put the clips of people choosing 37. (He'd mix it up by asking for a number between 50 and 100, even digits, different digits, and the go-to number was 68 iirc.)

  • Multnomah County will pause purchasing of tarps and tents
  • A city is its people. Spending a pitiful amount of money on distributing tarps and tents to the citizens of a rainy city who have no shelter provides them livability.

    Saying that to do so harms the city's "livability and the ability for small businesses to thrive" is neolibspeak for "Homeless people are a nuisance to everyone else; even though funding such small measures would only be a stopgap measure (in what should be a much broader and much more comprehensive effort to provide proper shelter, support, education, mental health services, and jobs training), they are not worth spending $10 a pop to keep them and their clothes dry. We'd rather they just fuck off so that we don't have to look at them because doing so causes our subconscious to elicit feelings empathy, the emotion that is the archenemy of capitalism."

  • Cognizant descent
  • You mean like having movers coming in a few weeks but not getting off my ass for the past five days to start putting my life into boxes to move halfway across the country? Cuz it feels like you might be referring to my having movers coming in a few weeks but me not getting off my ass for the past five days to start putting my life into boxes to move halfway across the country.

  • Even wealthy Americans are struggling to make ends meet
  • They struggle to make ends meet during periods of economic downturn because 1) they are "wealthy", but not "filthy fuckin' rich", and 2) they live almost beyond their means and...when they have to "cut" back...it involves downsizing the Beamer 7 Series to a Volvo S90 and spending two weeks in Hawaii on vacation instead of a month in Europe.

    For most of the working class who are well off enough to be able to afford a roof and know where our next meal is coming from, they are one bad month away from couch surfing.

    To the "wealthy" in this scenario, I say to you tighten up those bootstraps...quit eating avocado toast and all that.

    To the "filthy fuckin' rich", I say this: Guillotines exist for a reason.

  • Announcing into a microphone at a high-profile event your intention to vote for someone is *literally* endorsing them formally, Nimarata.

    "Nikki Haley says she'll vote for Trump.

    The former South Carolina governor's remarks were her first on the matter since she dropped out of the presidential race. But she stopped short of formally endorsing her former rival." - npr.org

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    www.democracynow.org Why Republicans Are Targeting Socially Responsible Investing

    Republicans are on a “crusade” against responsible investing, says Andrew Behar, CEO of the nonprofit group As You Sow that promotes corporate responsibility through shareholder advocacy. His group was subpoenaed to testify before the House Judiciary Committee this week as Republicans probe whether ...

    Why Republicans Are Targeting Socially Responsible Investing

    tl;dr - House Republicans are targeting socially responsible investing, including investments that take into account environmental concerns like climate change.

    >And that’s a threat to them, because what they’re trying to do is to basically stop people from looking at the climate risk from the oil companies. And they’re saying, “Don’t look up.” They’re saying, “Put your head in the ground.” And what we’re saying is, “We need the freedom to invest.” Like, they’re trying to suppress our freedom to be able to make logical, good business choices. And in doing so, at the state level, their harming their own citizens. - Andrew Behar, CEO of non-profit group As You Sow which promotes corporate responsibility through shareholder advocacy, speaking to Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! - March 29, 2024

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    www.kbtx.com Teacher who resigned after her OnlyFans page was discovered says new employer fired her for violating social media policy

    Brianna Coppage said she made $1 million on the platform, which she was using to supplement her teaching salary.

    Teacher who resigned after her OnlyFans page was discovered says new employer fired her for violating social media policy

    Had to supplement her $42,000 per year teacher salary with OF and made nearly $1 million in six months (almost 50 times as her salary) before the school caught wind of it and forced her to resign. Got a new job out of education and was fired five days later when they discovered news articles about her.

    Edit: To those basically saying she had it coming because she made her OF account public...

    1. Sex work is real, valid work.
    2. There is nothing wrong with sex work. Sex-shaming is Puritanical horseshit.
    3. "But her students could find her OF!" is a problem their parents should have to solve. It is not her responsibility to use an alias, because of points 1 and 2.
    4. Every other argument criticizing her for her sex work during her non-teaching hours is fucking moot.
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